**Trump And Johnson Unveil Groundbreaking Election Integrity
Legislation That Will Require Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
APRIL 27, 2024 / ERICA CARLIN
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike
Johnson (R-LA) held a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida
to advocate for an election integrity bill.
At Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Trump urged President Joe Biden to
“immediately close the border,” citing an increase in “migrant
crime.” He then shifted focus to discussing “election interference”
and the importance of ensuring “election integrity.”
“We probably have fifteen million people, and they come from
places you don’t want to know about and they’re going to be big
problems, and it’s getting worse,” Trump said. “It’s migrant crime.
It’s a new category of crime, migrant crime. And, I’m just demand-
ing, I just demand, as a citizen I demand, the border has to be
closed. Our country cannot take it, no country could take it. It’s
not sustainable by any country.”
After being introduced by Trump, Johnson explained when the
House of Representatives is not in session, the Speaker of the House
is “required to go around, fly around the country and be with all of
our candidates and incumbents,” adding that he has been to 23 states
within the past couple of weeks.
“Everywhere we go, one of the first questions people ask about
is this issue of election integrity,” Johnson said. “The border’s
the number one issue in America. There’s never been a political
issue that scored so high in the polls as a matter of concern. And,
it doesn’t matter where anyone lives, because as we say now, every
state is a border state. And election integrity is tied to border,
the lack of border security.”
Johnson persistently criticized Biden for causing a “catas-
trophe” at the border, highlighting the 64 executive actions taken
under Secretary Mayorkas since Biden took office that allowed the
border to remain open.
In February 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encoun-
tered nine million border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico southern
border, with over 1.8 million individuals managing to evade capture.
Additionally, data from the Census Bureau in 2023 revealed
nearly 17 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States.
Johnson also emphasized that aside from various issues arising from
the “open border catastrophe,” there is a significant threat to
election integrity.
“You need to understand something really important about fede-
ral law. Since 1993, the National Voter Registration Act, we call
it the motor voter law, allows people to sign up to vote when they
get a drivers license,” Johnson explained. “If an individual only
does search, or simply states that they are a citizen, they don’t
have to prove it. They can register that person to vote in a fede-
ral election, and you see states are currently prohibited, believe
it or not, the states are prohibited from asking someone to prove
that they are a citizen.”
Johnson added that they believe this is a “serious problem.”
“What we’re going to do is, the House Republicans are intro-
ducing a bill that will require proof of citizenship to vote,”
Johnson added. “It seems like common sense, I’m sure all of us
would agree. We only want U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections.
But, there are some Democrats who don’t want to do that. We believe
that one of their designs, one of the reasons for this open border,
which everybody asks all around the country, ‘Why would they do
this? Why would they allow all of this chaos? Why the violence?’
Because they want to turn these people into voters.”
Johnson added that he and Trump would “do everything” within
their power to “ensure that we do have free and fair elections in
this country.”
“If we don’t have that in a Constitutional Republic, we have
nothing. It’s the basis of who we are as a nation,” Johnson added.
“And, we owe that to the American people. So, what we’re going to
do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who
registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they are
an American citizen first.”
Johnson stated that apart from incorporating “safeguards” into
the bill, it would also mandate states to eliminate non-citizens
from their current voter rolls.
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DODGES MAYORKAS IMPEACHMENT**
I can't see where any of this is anything other than common
sense and honest logic, traits that the Left seem to lack.
We must pray that God does, in fact save or land because we
have never been so close to total destruction.
Conservatively,
John
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